POEMS; PRINCIPALLY ON SACRED SUBJECTS. BY THE REV. ROBERT BROWN, MINISTER OF ST. MATTHEW's, DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. "If I one soul improve, I have not lived in vain." BEATTIE'S MINSTREL. PUBLISHED BY JAMES NISBET, 21, BERNERS STREET, LONDON. M.DCCC.XXVI. TO THE REVEREND HUGH STOWELL, RECTOR OF BALLAUGH, IN THR ISLE OF MAN, A CLERGYMAN TO WHOSE CHRISTIAN COUNSEL, EDIFYING EXAMPLE, AND INESTIMABLE MEMOIRS OF BISHOP WILSON, THE AUTHOR OF THIS VOLUME IS, IN COMMON WITH MANY OTHERS, VERY DEEPLY INDEBTED, THE FOLLOWING POEMS ARE MOST GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED, BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND AND KINSMAN R. BROWN. |